Australia seems to be planning to sabotage negotiations aimed at preventing global heating.

Alas, so is the US (in a subtler way).

The UK opposes a European investigation into the flaws deliberately put into our computer systems.

The UK Conservative Party deleted lots of old speeches from its web site, and set up a robots.txt file to tell the Internet Archive to stop distributing its copies.

A friend at the archive told me they removed the robots.txt file subsequently, apparently in response to public criticism.

UK conservatives advocate permanent austerity, permanent suffering for most of the country.

The campaign for more gun control in the US has been blocked.

There are good reasons to condemn the US government — for catering to the rich and failing to help the poor, for instance — and right-wingers are surprisingly good at twisting this anger to their own uses. Owning a gun won't protect you when you can't afford medical care, when you can't get a job, when a bank commits fraud to take your house, when the government forces you to have a baby, or when the government signs a free exploitation treaty that gives foreign corporations privileges over you. The way to protect yourself from that is to vote for progressives.

A technique helps people get more information from FOIA requests to the FBI, so the FBI wants to shut down all FOIA requests for 7 years.

The FBI says that these requests threaten national security. I think the FBI threatens national security and doesn't want us to find out about it.